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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2026

Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

They should do that Jubilee show with the Pope. Like "1 Pope vs 20 Conservatives Catholics Who Just Converted."

A screenshot of the Jubilee YouTube show, where some famous person debates 20 idiots.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Disappointing to see people on here talking about their ideal ICE/CBP reforms. It is a terrorism organization that is conducting terror campaigns. Abolish. At minimum. That's it.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/01/2026

“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Our first freeze is coming this weekend, and I'm not ready for my lush green garden to go away. Let's hope the cold front isn't as severe as thought to be, and I have more time!

Zagreus thoroughly inspects an aji dulce pepper plant. For what? I'm not sure.

A honey bee enjoys the blossoms of a Thai basil.

A tiny jumping spider sat on a leaf of a cubanelle pepper plant, moving their little chelicerae excitedly... or nervously. Didn't have the chance to ask.

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It's getting cooler, but there are still pollinators out enjoying the garden. And Zagreus.

A honey bee inside a white bottle gourd bloom.

A gulf frittilary enjoying the same gourd blossom.

A black cat rolls wildly on the ground in front of raised beds.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

After noticing she and her web were looking pretty rough, we lost the last yellow orb weaver, Hopper, on Sunday. Jean, Lady, and Barbara all disappeared shortly before then. I know they're spiders, but we grew attached. Tonight, I noticed a newcomer, a spotted orb weaver (pic 4). Name pending.

Jean, one of the four yellow garden orb weavers inhabiting the garden. She arrived around the same time as Lady, and oversees the indigo black chocolate and rosella tomatoes.

Hopper on the left, and Lady on the right. They protect the principe borghese tomatoes. Hopper arrived a few weeks after Barbara, and Lady arrived in the late summer.

Barbara, the first yellow garden orb weaver who appeared first in the spring. She watched over the squash/gourd tunnel.

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

PSA: Half mast means a flag flown on a ship. Half staff means a regular old flag pole on land.

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The Road Jess Travelled @jesspected.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"so many girls, so little time" It's telling that all these birthday wishes reference consuming girls together. I hope it isn't lost in all this horror how men bond with other men over the consumption of women (& even girls). Epstein is only extraordinary bc he & his "friends" were so wealthy.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Okay at this point you have to ask yourself “If I was actively collaborating with Trump to make sure he stayed in power while pretending to be in opposition, what would I do differently”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Hmmm, this Republican Senator's speech at the National Conservatism Conference sure has a lot of similarities to the antisemitic "great replacement theory." And by similarities, I mean it is word-for-word identical. www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/02/s...

For decades, many of those in power—not just here, but across the West—have been locked in a cultural war with their own nations. We see that in many of the countries of Europe today, where the immigration crisis threatens to transform the ancient fabric of those nations—and all who object are menaced by an increasingly totalitarian censorship state.

While our First Amendment has traditionally insulated us from the most extreme forms of censorship, America, too, is threatened by the same elites, driven by the same interests and ambitions. They are the elites who rule everywhere but are not truly from anywhere.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/08/2025

This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.

Alt text: A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) dated August 21, 2025, at 12:22 PM. The post reads: “President Trump is going out on patrol tonight in DC. Shock and awe. Force. We're taking our country back from these cockroaches. Just the start.” Below is an embedded post by Todd Starnes (@toddstarnes) from 2 hours earlier, stating: “JUST IN: President Trump tells me that he's going out on patrol tonight with DC law enforcement and the military. Listen to my full interview with the president at 12P ET on The Todd Starnes Show…” The post has 171.1K views.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

cool & fun to live in an era that constantly promises magical scientific solutions to every problem, and then when there actually ARE magical scientific solutions (mRNA vaccines, renewables) they're like lol no fuck you

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“Nothing lasts. We all die. You and I are going to die.” - the guy who just came to my house to change a broken lock.

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Gators Daily 🐊 @gatorsdaily.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY ROLL THE CLIP

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

this is genuinely one of the most cruel and evil things i have ever read in my life

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Look at the pretty corn I grew!!! This will go nicely with all the winter squash on my mantle.

Glass gem corn with mostly yellow kernels with some lavender, pink, and cream

Glass gem corn with dark pink, orange, yellow, purple, brown, blue, cream, and red kernels

Glass gem corn with purple, lavender, pink, orange, and dark blue kernels

16ish cobs of glass gem corn with the husks still on, with various levels of corn worm damage and pollination issues

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

So proud of my first winter squash harvest. Also, does anyone know how to gauge when to pick watermelon? I'm wondering if this Ali Baba variety is ripe.

Eight winter-aged zuchinno rampicante in various states of curviness, eight spaghetti squash, one candy roaster, and one butternut squash are laid out on a concrete porch. The tips of gold glitter crocs are visible on the left side.

The squash lay in front of a red-haired white woman holding the largest, curviest of the zuchinno rampicante squash.

A hand for scale next to an ali baba watermelon on the vine in grass

The same watermelon, rolled over to reveal a pale yellow bottom with some dirt on it

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

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Mr Targeted Harassment @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

First melon of the season, a Golden Jenny! Can't wait to cut into it later.

A hand-sized melon with lobed segments and a rough exterior, just starting to turn from green to orange is held in a white woman's hand. Melon vines are in the backdrop.

A view from the top of the same melon. The rough webbing and protrusion at the center give it an almost flower-like look.

A 14ish foot tall sunflower eclipses the view of the sun, which casts a light halo around it in a beautiful blue sky with very few clouds. An oak tree and white house are in the near distance, with a chaotic overgrown garden in between.

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

April 1st to today. Can hardly believe what's possible with full sun and plenty of spring rain!

Two symmetrical garden beds in a backyard with small green things sporadically placed in some areas. Not a lot of green growth. A small plot of bare soil sits to the left of the beds. Various potted plants are visible at the edges of a porch.

An explosion of plant life has overtaken the same garden beds. The prepared plot to the left now has 10 foot tall sunflowers, tasseling corn, and squash trailing from it. Cucumber and melon vines threaten to take over the front of the yard. The trellis has turned into a verdant tunnel of gourds and squash. Chaotic bliss.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We are governed by a needy narcissistic man-child and if you’re a supporter or admirer of his, I pity you.

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

We joke that Zagreus is the most skibidi cat we've ever met. Here he is, being skibidi. What's skibidi, you ask? You know it when you see it. And this is a skibidi cat.

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Lots of bullshit happening in the US right now but at least the garden is thriving

A pearl crescent butterfly and a small bee sit atop calendula flowers.

The front of a three sisters garden with squash at the front, corn behind the squash, and beans growing up the corn stalks.

Western honey bee knee deep in a melon blossom

The end of a trellis tunnel with a few new green spaghetti squash visible.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/06/2025

you show signs of wanting to change the party for the better and they oust you, this party has learned absolutely nothing from 2016, from 2020, and from 2024 and never will

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

To put this into context, for this amount of money we could drop 2 more F/A-18 fighter jets into the sea

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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Kate @primroseplants.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

On days like today, I wonder if life could get any better

A black cat rolls blissfully on green grass

Two Chinese red long beans intertwined with each other on a trellis supporting other beans and squash plants

Four loaves of rising challah bread sit on an oven

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha. Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children. Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.

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Islam's holiest day is marred by grief and peril as Gaza marks Eid al-Adha
Rather than the ritual sacrifice of a lamb, a Palestinian man told NBC News, "We sacrifice the blood of martyrs. We sacrifice our sons, our daughters, and our mothers."

"This is not an Eid of joy; it is an Eid of mourning and death," Ahmed Darwish, displaced from Rafah to west Khan Younis, told NBC News as he stood beside the graves. "Our children and women are in pieces.
Instead of sacrificing animals, we collected body parts this morning."
On Eid, Israeli strikes continued as families wept by the bodies of their loved ones, killed before celebrations could begin.
Reda Abdel Rahim Eljara told an NBC News team that Israeli air strikes had already killed her husband and one of her sons. On the first day of Eid al-Adha, she lost two more sons and her daughter-in-law.

Umm Ahmad Al-Qatati said her son, Omar, 11, was shot as he left his tent to shower and get ready for a visit to see his father.
"He was so excited for Eid morning, but they sent him to the morgue instead," she said. "Instead of celebrating Eid, he went to be with his Lord."

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

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22-year-old dies after being unable to afford asthma inhaler

In our new series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports on the young man who went to refill his asthma inhaler only to find it unaffordable because it was no longer covered by his insu...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

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